exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …

- East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of … West Germans. Additionally, our analyses of secret police surveillance data from East Germany point to the fact that …

role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning …

manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …